same here :p

im just wondering about all these festivals they will be playing.

 

.Do you know of any other band that has played in so many festivals in one year??..It just seems like a lot especially without new material..maybe

^I can't stop thinking about them!

 

^ That is the problem! Who can?

 

same here :p

 

 

 

you can add me to that list :smug2:

March 4, 2011 - submitted by thenowhereman, United Kingdom

 

Q. Dear Oracle, I am a huge Coldplay fan. Not size-wise, but I truly love this band and their current output. I was even on the boat in the Christmas Lights video. Yet I am peeved. Peeved and annoyed. Testy, you might say. Why, I don't hear you ask? How can a band headline, like, fifteen or sixteen major festivals with no new stuff. It's insane. Apart from myself and other huge fans, some may be big size-wise, no one cares. Seriously. Please tell me what I'm hearing about the next albums release date is false and that it's actually coming before the festivals. Otherwise this group is gonna go down like a lead balloon.

 

 

The Oracle replies:

 

Well nowhereman... I can see how a fan of a band waiting for a new album can feel frustrated at not hearing new material at festivals but I passionately disagree.

I know that back in 2002 they played new songs at Glastonbury after a mini UK tour showcasing AROBTTH but that's because when they booked to play there originally, the album release date had been scheduled for before the event but was put back.

You have to remember that festivals are not usual concerts in that not everyone is there to see Coldplay. It's great to go to a festival and see a band you've never seen before. You may know all the songs but wouldn't necessarily be a fan. I love having a great time courtesy of a band that I'm not that familiar with. Given that not everyone there is a fan, it's different "rules".

I contest what you say about the band going down like a lead balloon; you may as well be saying that every band who is appearing at every festival better be playing new songs or not bother and I have a strong feeling that you're not saying that at all as that's utter nonsense, sorry.

 

Just to repeat what I said on previous post, if you're looking for Team Oracle you may have noticed the server went down and unfortunately it wiped this week's responses from the system. They will now appear on Sunday as I'm afraid commitments mean I cannot address the problem until then. Sorry folks!

i hope im wrong but as they are still working round the clock and working on diiferant ways on the new stuff i would say you would be lucky to hear much new stuff at the festivals if any at all. but if its a trick then expect a whole set list of new stuff and an album out just before or just after f ing happy days then

March 4, 2011 - submitted by thenowhereman, United Kingdom

 

Q. Dear Oracle, I am a huge Coldplay fan. Not size-wise, but I truly love this band and their current output. I was even on the boat in the Christmas Lights video. Yet I am peeved. Peeved and annoyed. Testy, you might say. Why, I don't hear you ask? How can a band headline, like, fifteen or sixteen major festivals with no new stuff. It's insane. Apart from myself and other huge fans, some may be big size-wise, no one cares. Seriously. Please tell me what I'm hearing about the next albums release date is false and that it's actually coming before the festivals. Otherwise this group is gonna go down like a lead balloon.

 

 

The Oracle replies:

 

Well nowhereman... I can see how a fan of a band waiting for a new album can feel frustrated at not hearing new material at festivals but I passionately disagree.

I know that back in 2002 they played new songs at Glastonbury after a mini UK tour showcasing AROBTTH but that's because when they booked to play there originally, the album release date had been scheduled for before the event but was put back.

You have to remember that festivals are not usual concerts in that not everyone is there to see Coldplay. It's great to go to a festival and see a band you've never seen before. You may know all the songs but wouldn't necessarily be a fan. I love having a great time courtesy of a band that I'm not that familiar with. Given that not everyone there is a fan, it's different "rules".

I contest what you say about the band going down like a lead balloon; you may as well be saying that every band who is appearing at every festival better be playing new songs or not bother and I have a strong feeling that you're not saying that at all as that's utter nonsense, sorry.

 

Just to repeat what I said on previous post, if you're looking for Team Oracle you may have noticed the server went down and unfortunately it wiped this week's responses from the system. They will now appear on Sunday as I'm afraid commitments mean I cannot address the problem until then. Sorry folks!

 

 

 

yikes

But if they aren't going to play any new material, the festivals will be the same as the VLV tour? So they will still wear their VLV outfits and the butterflies will also be there? I hope so! :lol:

They sold those outfits (lot 46 End Of Decade Clearout Sale) and I don't think they will use the butterflies again

But if they aren't going to play any new material, the festivals will be the same as the VLV tour? So they will still wear their VLV outfits and the butterflies will also be there? I hope so! :lol:

 

No. They won't be in their Viva costumes. It would be a PR disaster for them - one moment they appear to still be promoting their last album and within weeks of them finishing their festival dates they release a new album with new themes - doesn't make sense so there's no chance in hell of those Viva costumes ever making another appearance. The fact that Oracle said old songs would be coming back says they will also probably be dropping quite a few of the Viva era songs that were sung during a Viva concert from their setlist.

Yes it sounds like it will be more of a "greatest hits" performance.

 

Although I am curious what they plan to wear (I know that sounds odd). Quite frankly I hope that each of them just wear whatever they want. Normal clothes. Let their own individual personalities shine.

+1 for normal clothes :nice:

Yes it sounds like it will be more of a "greatest hits" performance.

 

Although I am curious what they plan to wear (I know that sounds odd). Quite frankly I hope that each of them just wear whatever they want. Normal clothes. Let their own individual personalities shine.

 

Yep same here. I think that's what they may actually. Or I hope so!

Whatever they do, it will be "new." Obviously...the "hits" as Chris always says. But I just don't see how they couldn't do some of the new material. I mean seriously guys, as neurotic as Chris is...always worrying, he's positivly about to explode with the need to play new material.

^ That's what I find so weird! They must have some kind of strategy or... dunno :P

And they can't even play their most recent song, Christmas Lights is a Christmas song, as the title says! We'll see... and I also hope they'll wear normal clothes... although it's unlikely to happen :confused:

+1 for normal clothes :nice:

 

+2

I think it would be awesome if they did Christmas lights

 

Coldplay Rep "Shoots Down Rumors" Of October Album Release

 

Despite rumors of a delay, the band's spokesperson says no release date was ever set.

 

You may already have an idea about what Coldplay's upcoming album is about — namely "love, addiction, OCD, escape and working for someone you don't like" — but up until now, you probably had no idea when the still-untitled disc would be hitting stores.

 

But when the band began lining up headlining dates on summer festivals (Glastonbury, T in the Park, etc.), fans interpreted that to mean that Coldplay were also readying their fifth full-length for release, meaning that a brand-new album should be only a few months away.

 

Of course, that optimism was dashed when a well-informed member of Coldplay fansite Coldplaying.com posted that the album had been pushed back until October, writing, "I can confirm the change of plans in the Coldplay camp regarding the schedule[d] release of LP5, originally before summer. Hope people can wait until October."

 

Given that this particular member had, in the past, seemed to have been privy to some top-secret Coldplay information (he/she claimed to have heard "Violet Hill," the first single off the band's Viva la Vida album, two weeks before the song premiered, and wrote about it in shockingly accurate terms to prove it), word of the October release quickly began spreading as chapter and verse amongst Coldplay fans.

 

The only problem? According to a spokesperson for the band, there is no release date for Coldplay's new album, nor has there ever been one.

"A release date has not yet been set for Coldplay's next studio album," that spokesperson wrote in an e-mail to MTV News.

 

Coldplay are currently working on the new album with frequent collaborators Brian Eno and Markus Dravs. Last month, frontman Chris Martin told BBC's Radio 1 the album is a "thinly veiled account of what happens within the group," but added that it's not entirely about interpersonal conflict.

 

"[it] also has a lot of uplifting stuff," he said. "It's supposed to be about life, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Everything."

 

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1659358/coldplay-album-release.jhtml

:uhoh:

 

Thanks for posting the article, Ian!

MTV copied from your article. :stunned:

So Locust is giving wrong info? Did he trip up and bang his head whilst coming down Mount Sinai or something when he told us this bollocks!

 

Still fully believe Locust. Spokesperson for Coldplay said there was no release date yet - no release date set for sometime in October more like.

Still fully believe Locust. Spokesperson for Coldplay said there was no release date yet - no release date for sometime in October set yet more like.

exactly my immediate thoughts... they can't prove anything from a one liner!

:wtf: lurkers

ah, i still dont no wat to think or believe, but i love when they reference coldplaying :D

 

i mean i think locust is such a reliable source

Does anyone have a link to locust's profile? No stalking, just interested to see his previous posts again.

^ just go to community, member list, and search on his username

Does anyone have a link to locust's profile? No stalking, just interested to see his previous posts again.

 

http://coldplaying.com/forum/member.php?u=29072 :nice: